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Define Socialism. Discuss the salient features of Fabian Socialism.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • Political Ideologies

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Socialism is the ideology and movement that locates the source of inequality in private ownership of productive property and seeks to place the means of production under social ownership or control, administered for common benefit. Its core values are community, cooperation, equality and need, with freedom understood as freedom from want. Fabianism is its British,…

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